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Researchers found no adverse effect on oat yield with the glyphosate application. In fact, 
they saw a slight yield bump and significantly greater test weight.
Crops, Features

Oats not affected by pre-harvest glyphosate

Despite buyers’ concerns, variety and environment have more impact than glyphosate

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In the spring of 2015, Grain Millers announced they wouldn’t buy oats that had been treated with pre-harvest glyphosate. Christian Willenborg was alarmed. “I was alarmed because I really hadn’t heard of an issue. I hadn’t seen an issue,” said Willenborg, assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of […] Read more
The sugar beet sector has seen a year-over-year increase in sugar beet quality and yield for much of the past decade.
Crops, Features, Fruit/Vegetables

How high can we push sugar beet yields?

Rising yield and quality make sugar beets a sweet success for Alberta beet growers

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Harvest just keeps getting sweeter for Alberta’s 208 sugar beet growers. The sector has seen a year-over-year increase in sugar beet quality and yield for much of the past decade. So what’s the secret to sweet success? Those closest to the sector suggest it’s a combination of climate, new varieties and sound grower management practices. […] Read more
Crops, Features, Fruit/Vegetables

Sugar beets just keep getting sweeter

Improving sugar beet quality and yield now comes down to small tweaks


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Alberta sugar beet growers continue to see gains in yield and crop quality year over year, thanks to new genetics and 2009’s full adoption of Roundup Ready varieties. But can growers really expect the winning streak to continue? Arnie Bergen-Henengouwen, President of Alberta Sugar Beet Growers, (ASBG) says he believes there are still plenty of gains to be had, but […] Read more
Crops, Features, Fruit/Vegetables

These aren’t your father’s sugar beets

Roundup Ready adoption has made for big changes in the sugar beet fields

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In 1982, when Arnie Bergen-Henengouwen rented his first contract to grow sugar beets, it was a different crop. Seed genetics and technology had a long way to go, and there was a lot that could go wrong in a season. “It was very intensive,” he says. “We were going over the crop at least once […] Read more
Iuean Evans, A.K.A. “Dr. Copper”.
Crops, Features

Earlier seeding has advantages

Seed according to conditions to optimize moisture, 
root development and nutrients

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It is difficult to have a conversation with plant pathologist and soil fertility specialist Dr. Iuean Evans without hearing the word “copper” and the important role it can play in development of a healthy, high yielding crop. But he also has recently noted that early-bird agronomic practices are important for optimizing soil available nutrients and […] Read more
Andy Sirski
Features

How to be an editor

In memorium: Another former editor, Cory Bourdeaud’hui 
remembers Andy Sirski

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“Sirski.” That’s how Andy answered the phone. Andy Sirski was editor of Grainews. He retired in 2006 after 27 years with Grainews and passed away in February. Andy loved gardening, cigars and making wine but those weren’t his true loves in his life. The first was his family. Andy drove and fixed old cars. They […] Read more
Getting the dirt on 4R nutrient stewardship
Crops, Features

Getting the dirt on 4R nutrient stewardship

Fertilizer Canada’s 4R nutrient stewardship research tour delivers valuable information

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In the ever-changing world of farming, information is a more valuable commodity than the finest canola crop. Consequently, the recently launched webinar series “Across Canada Tour of 4R Nutrient Stewardship Research” sponsored by Fertilizer Canada is must-see viewing. The tour began last month in Alberta, where co-presenter Dr. Miles Dyck offered an overview of 4R […] Read more
Changing nitrogen use to avoid taxes
Crops, Features

Changing nitrogen use to avoid taxes

Nobody likes the idea of a new tax. Especially when it could impact the way we farm

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[Updated: April 9, 2017] When Dr. Mario Tenuta braved icy roads to drive from his home in Winnipeg to Weyburn, Sask., to speak at the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation (IHARF) Soil and Crop Management Seminar, he wasn’t planning to make many friends. The University of Manitoba soil scientist had come to make farmers aware […] Read more
Blooming rapeseed field at sunset
Canola, Crops, Features

Back to the agronomy basics in canola

Experts advise growers to focus on quality seed and nitrogen before less conventional inputs

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Canola growers have been asking agronomists questions about promoted products. Do they work? And if so, are they worth the additional cost? Two researchers, Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, and Neil Harker, research scientist, weed ecology and crop management, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, conducted a study to test the inputs that […] Read more
Myron Krahn had record or near-record yields of corn and soybean with high quality on his farm near Carman, Manitoba.
Crops, Features

A goldilocks year, and few found it ‘just right’

Early winter, in the middle of harvest, definitely took its toll

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Here’s what you learn when you ask a sampling of western Canadian farmers how 2016 went and what’s ahead for the coming seeding season: Corn and soybeans did very well in 2016. Looking ahead, disease pressure on cereal and pulse crops could change the cropping landscape. An early spring would be a blessing considering there […] Read more

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